Essential Tremor stands as one of the prevailing movement disorders globally, impacting around 0.9% of the global population.
These disorders, like essential tremors, can significantly hinder an individual's physical, social, and psychological well-being, diminishing their overall quality of life and often necessitating the support of a caregiver. Furthermore, Essential Tremor, being a progressive neurological condition, imposes substantial healthcare costs.
For specific Essential Tremor (ET) patients unresponsive to medication, focused ultrasound offers a non-invasive treatment option. Conducted in an MRI suite, this procedure typically allows patients to return home on the same day.
Exablate® Neuro delivers up to 1024 ultrasound waves to precisely heat and ablate deep brain targets with no surgical incisions or burr holes. Treatment is guided by MR imaging for patient-specific planning, real-time temperature monitoring as well as immediate confirmation of treatment outcome.
First, low energy is applied for locating the ultrasound to the anatomic target followed by physiologic evaluation of patient response including tremor relief as well as potential side effects.
Once the target is confirmed, the energy is gradually increased to create a highly accurate and controllable lesion. The result for many patients is immediate improvement of tremor with minimal complications.
The MR Guided Focused Ultrasound treatment is as easy as this:
Let's get to know about the treatment feedback directly from the Patient
Patient self – check list
ET Patient Symptom checker
Talk to your doctor guide – ET patient
